ECE 399H Information Security & Cryptography

ECE 399H Information Security & Cryptography

Fall Term 2004 - CRN: 16859
Oregon State University
http://islab.oregonstate.edu/koc/ece399

Announcements

  • Schedule and Classroom: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:00-12:50, Strand Agriculture Hall 226.
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  • My office hours: MWF 4-5 PM & Tuesday 3-4 PM.

Grades

Assignments

  • 2 Homework Assignments
  • Exploratory Paper - due the 5th week of classes (Oct 25-29)
  • Final Paper - due the 10th week of classes (Nov 29 - Dec 3)

Homework Assignments

Assignments are submitted by e-mail to koc@ece.orst.edu. Submit the assignment as a Text, PDF, or MS Word file. Make the attached file name as your last name, followed by assignment number, for example: koc1.pdf

Project and Papers

  • Ideas for Topics of Exploratory/Final Papers

Fall Term 2004

Exploratory Papers
  • Max Brugger. The Importance of Being Bluetooth.   PDF
  • Chris Chambers. Smart Home.   PDF
  • Scott Griffiths. Quantum Computing.   PDF
  • Jason Siefken and James Simshaw. Internet Anonymity.   PDF
  • Charles Wright. Deterministic Random Number Generators.   PDF
Final Papers
  • Max Brugger. The Future of Bluetooth: Attacks and Counter-measures.   PDF
  • Chris Chambers. Low Cost Solutions for High Tech Homes.   PDF
  • Scott Griffiths. Quantum Computation Theory and Applications to Cryptographic Systems.   PDF
  • Jessica McGregor. Radio Frequency Identification: A Bright Future, In The Right Hands.   PDF
  • Jason Siefken and James Simshaw. Anonymizing Proxies have the Potential to Make Everyone’ Internet Traffic a Little More Secure and Anonymous.   PDF
  • Charles Wright. So You Need a Random Number Generator.   PDF

Fall Term 2003

Exploratory Papers
  • Benjamin Hershberg. Gutenberg Going Digital.   PDF
  • Bob Baddeley. Farm Technology: Applying High Tech for High Yields.   PDF
  • James Lewis. RFID: Big Brother Gets Small.   PDF
  • Jeremy Gragg. The Emergence of RFID Technology in Modern Society.   PDF
  • Kremena Diatchka. Wearable Computing and Personal Health Monitoring Systems.   PDF
  • Lelia Barlow. Electronic Voting.   PDF
  • Seth Insley. Augmented Reality: Merging the Virtual and the Real   PDF
  • Mahmoud Tavakoli Shiraji and Shunsuke Yamamoto. Human Tracking Devices: The Active Badge/Bat and Digital Angel / Verichip systems.   PDF
Final Papers
  • Benjamin Hershberg. The Book Remedy: Exploring the Potential of Digital Books.   PDF
  • Bob Baddeley. Farm Technology: A Double-Edged Scythe.   PDF
  • James Lewis. RFID: Small Package, Big Problem.   PDF
  • Jeremy Gragg. Radio Frequency Identification: Technical and Societal Issues.   PDF
  • Kremena Diatchka. Security in Personal Health Monitoring Technology.   PDF
  • Lelia Barlow. A Discussion of Cryptographic Protocols for Electronic Voting.   PDF
  • Seth Insley. Obstacles to General Purpose Augmented Reality.   PDF
  • Shunsuke Yamamoto. Ethical and Practical Issues Relating to Human-Implanted Chips.   PDF

Class Notes, Presentations, Papers, News, and Links

Motivation and Objective

Information security and cryptography provides the gateways through which electronic commerce will flow in the future Internet. Most technologies that shape tomorrow's society will be built around these gateways which will enable real-time purchase, distribution, and delivery of music, movies, and multimedia content to the homes, while securing the intellectual property rights and the royalty streams of authors, artists, producers, and publishers. These gateways will allow mass customization of information to individual and corporate consumers by letting people turn their driver's licenses into digital wallets that carry anything from electronic cash to credit lines, airline tickets, or medical prescriptions. The creation of distributed universities, virtual communities, and millions of micro businesses around the world are not too far in the future.

Information security technology provides the necessary tools and methods for the construction of this infrastructure in such a way that the privacy, ownership rights, and consumer rights of the participants are protected. We will study theoretical aspects of cryptographic algorithms and security protocols, and show how these techniques can be applied to solve particular data storage, networking, communication security, rights management problems. In this course, we are particularly interested in security for ubiquitous computing, embedded systems and devices, and peer-to-peer computing.

Topics

  • Ubiquitous Computing: Scenario, terminology, examples of ubiquitous computing systems and their security problems.
  • Security Services and Mechanisms: Authentication, confidentiality, privacy, integrity, availability, security policies, and anonymity.
  • Past, Present, and Future: Existing security solutions, current computing trends and security problems, future of secure computing and communication.

    Textbook

    Frank Stajano. Security for Ubiquitous Computing. Wiley, 2002.

    Grading Plan

    • TBA

    Prerequisites

    This class is open to UHC students.

    Dr. Çetin Kaya Koç